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Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud Earned יול 31, 2026 EDT
Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage Earned יול 31, 2026 EDT
Arcade Voyage: Cloud Storage and Data Governance Earned יול 31, 2026 EDT
Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Your Ecosystem Earned יול 31, 2026 EDT
Build Serverless Applications with Cloud Run Functions Earned יול 30, 2026 EDT
Arcade Adventure: Low-Code Development Earned יול 30, 2026 EDT
App Building with AppSheet Earned יול 30, 2026 EDT
Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog Earned יול 29, 2026 EDT
Arcade Simulator: Data Mesh Architect Earned יול 29, 2026 EDT
Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery Earned יול 26, 2026 EDT
Implement Speech and Language Solutions with Pre-trained APIs Earned יונ 29, 2026 EDT
Arcade Voyage: Identity Management and Pre-trained AI APIs Earned יונ 29, 2026 EDT
Configure Service Accounts and IAM Roles for Google Cloud Earned יונ 29, 2026 EDT
Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability Earned יונ 27, 2026 EDT
Arcade Adventure: App Dev and Cloud Observability Earned יונ 27, 2026 EDT
Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud Earned יונ 26, 2026 EDT
Work Meets Play: Cloud Canvas Earned יונ 18, 2026 EDT
Implement Cloud Collaboration and Productivity Workflows Earned יונ 18, 2026 EDT
Implement Sensitive Data Protection on Google Cloud Earned יונ 16, 2026 EDT
Arcade Trail: Data Engineering and Information Protection Earned יונ 16, 2026 EDT
Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud Earned יונ 10, 2026 EDT
Logic Log Earned יונ 5, 2026 EDT
Skill Up Summer Earned מאי 31, 2026 EDT
Arcade Trail: Cloud Security and DevOps Foundations Earned מאי 30, 2026 EDT
Arcade Adventure: Modern App Deployment Earned מאי 28, 2026 EDT
Arcade Base Camp May 2026 Earned מאי 27, 2026 EDT
Arcade Voyage: Data Governance and Firebase Foundations Earned מאי 27, 2026 EDT
Work Meets Play: Expressive Efficiency Earned מאי 26, 2026 EDT
Arcade Voyage: Modern Application Development Earned אפר 29, 2026 EDT
Responsible AI for Developers: Privacy & Safety Earned ינו 25, 2026 EST
Responsible AI for Developers: Fairness & Bias Earned ינו 25, 2026 EST
Responsible AI for Developers: Interpretability & Transparency Earned ינו 24, 2026 EST
Vector Search and Embeddings Earned ינו 24, 2026 EST
Introduction to Generative AI Studio - בעברית Earned ינו 24, 2026 EST
Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) for Generative AI Earned ינו 24, 2026 EST
Create Image Captioning Models - בעברית Earned ינו 17, 2026 EST
Transformer Models and BERT Model - בעברית Earned ינו 17, 2026 EST
Encoder-Decoder Architecture - בעברית Earned ינו 17, 2026 EST
Attention Mechanism - בעברית Earned ינו 17, 2026 EST
Introduction to Image Generation - בעברית Earned ינו 17, 2026 EST
Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization Earned ינו 2, 2026 EST
Gen AI Apps: Transform Your Work Earned ינו 2, 2026 EST
Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape Earned ינו 2, 2026 EST
Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts Earned דצמ 31, 2025 EST
Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot Earned דצמ 31, 2025 EST
Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles with Google Cloud Earned דצמ 31, 2025 EST
Introduction to Responsible AI - בעברית Earned דצמ 31, 2025 EST
Introduction to Large Language Models - בעברית Earned דצמ 31, 2025 EST
Introduction to Generative AI - בעברית Earned דצמ 31, 2025 EST
Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit Earned יונ 24, 2025 EDT
Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG Earned יונ 20, 2025 EDT
Explore Generative AI in Agent Platform Earned יונ 19, 2025 EDT
Prompt Design in Agent Platform Earned יונ 6, 2025 EDT
Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen Earned מאי 30, 2025 EDT

Complete the intermediate Build Infrastructure with Terraform on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, provisioning and managing Google Cloud resources with Terraform configurations, effective state management (local and remote), and modularizing Terraform code for reusability and organization.

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Complete the introductory Use APIs to Work with Cloud Storage skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using APIs to work with Cloud Storage resources, including the Cloud Storage API.

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Data is one of the most valuable assets an organization owns, making its safe handling and governance essential. In this voyage, you will master Cloud Storage fundamentals by automating bucket management via APIs and the CLI, while enforcing compliance with Bucket Lock. You will then advance to automated security, configuring Sensitive Data Protection Discovery to scan and catalog risks across BigQuery and Cloud Storage. Complete with two challenge labs, this journey equips you to secure assets across your entire cloud ecosystem.

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Complete the intermediate Discover and Protect Sensitive Data Across Your Ecosystem skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API) to discover, inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data across your Google Cloud ecosystem including Cloud Storage files, BigQuery data, and Gen AI model responses.

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Earn a Introductory skill badge by completing the Build Serverless Applications with Cloud Run Functions course, where you learn how to use Cloud Run functions through the Google Cloud console and on the command line.

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Who says you need a mountain of code to build great software? This adv is your fast lane to rapid app development and automation. First, you'll jump into Google AppSheet to build and launch fully functional apps entirely code-free. Then, you'll master the backend with Cloud Run Functions, deploying event-driven code via the console and command line. Packed with two hands-on challenge labs, this quest is your ticket to building slick apps and scaling them effortlessly on Google Cloud.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the App Building with AppSheet course, where you learn how to build, configure, and publish apps using AppSheet.

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Complete the introductory Build a Data Mesh with Knowledge Catalog skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: building a data mesh with Knowledge Catalog to facilitate data security, governance, and discovery on Google Cloud. You practice and test your skills in tagging assets, assigning IAM roles, and assessing data quality in Knowledge Catalog.

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Welcome to this month's Arcade Simulator where you will be a Data Mesh Architect. In this simulation, you'll first tackle BigQuery to build date-partitioned tables, solve complex join pitfalls, and master nested data structures. Then, you'll shift to decentralized governance using Dataplex Knowledge Catalog to organize assets, assign metadata, and enforce strict cloud security. Complete with two realistic challenge labs, this simulation equips you to break down data silos, scale your infrastructure, and run a secure, seamless data mesh.

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Complete the intermediate Build a Data Warehouse with BigQuery skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: joining data to create new tables, troubleshooting joins, appending data with unions, creating date-partitioned tables, and working with JSON, arrays, and structs in BigQuery.

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Earn the Introductory Skill Badge by completing the Implement Speech and Language Solutions with Pre-trained APIs course, where you learn how to use speech related API tools to synthesise and transcribe speech.

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Keeping your cloud resources secure and making your apps smarter are two essential skills for any cloud developer. In this voyage, you’ll start with the security fundamentals, learning how to configure service accounts, manage IAM permissions using gcloud, and set up custom roles. Once you've secured your environment, you'll work with Google Cloud's pre-trained AI tools—converting text to synthetic speech, translating languages on the fly, and transcribing audio files into text. Complete with two practical challenge labs to test your skills, you'll walk away knowing how to safely manage access to your cloud project while adding powerful language and speech features to your applications.

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Earn the Introductory skill badge by completing the Configure Service Accounts and IAM Roles for Google Cloud course, where you learn about service accounts, custom roles, and how to set permissions using gcloud .

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Complete the introductory Monitor and Log with Google Cloud Observability skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: monitoring virtual machines in Compute Engine, utilizing Cloud Monitoring for multi-project oversight, extending monitoring and logging capabilities to Cloud Functions, creating and sending custom application metrics, and configuring Cloud Monitoring alerts based on custom metrics.

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Writing code is just the first step; you also need to know how to deploy it smoothly and keep it running at its best. In this adventure, you’ll get started with serverless setups by running code on Cloud Run Functions and connecting your services using Google Cloud Pub/Sub. From there, you'll work on the operations side—building out clean development environments, keeping tabs on multiple projects at once, and setting up smart alerts so you can spot and fix issues early. With a couple of challenge labs thrown into the mix, you’ll walk away with the skills needed to build, monitor, and scale apps on Google Cloud.

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Earn a skill badge by completing the Set Up an App Dev Environment on Google Cloud skill badge course, where you learn how to build and connect storage-centric cloud infrastructure using the basic capabilities of the following technologies: Cloud Storage, Identity and Access Management, Cloud Functions, and Pub/Sub.

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Great ideas come to life when creativity meets the right tools. Inspired by how Adobe connects its creative universe with Google Workspace to boost collaboration, this challenge shows you how to build seamless, efficient workflows. You’ll start with the basics of setting up shared spaces in Google Drive, managing communications in Gmail, and building no-code apps with AppSheet. From there, you'll connect your workspace to powerful data tools—using Apps Script to automate tasks across Sheets and Maps, analyzing massive datasets with Connected Sheets, and sending that data directly into slide presentations. By the end, you'll know how to bridge the gap between data and design to keep your projects running smoothly.

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Earn an introductory skill badge by completing the Implement Cloud Collaboration and Productivity Workflows course, where you will get introduced to Google's collaborative platform and learn to use Gmail, Calendar, Meet, Drive, Sheets, and AppSheet.

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Complete the Implement Sensitive Data Protection on Google Cloud Skill Badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using Sensitive Data Protection services (including the Cloud Data Loss Prevention API) to inspect, redact, and de-identify sensitive data in Google Cloud.

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Raw data is only useful if it is clean, structured, and secure. In this track, you’ll start by processing and preparing data using Dataprep, Dataflow templates, and Apache Spark. You'll learn how to clean up datasets so they are ready for machine learning models. From there, you'll focus on security by working with tools that find and mask sensitive information like personal IDs and credentials. You'll practice redacting critical details and creating safe, de-identified copies of your data in Cloud Storage. By finishing the hands-on challenge labs, you’ll show you can handle big data workflows while keeping confidential information completely safe.

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Complete the introductory Prepare Data for ML APIs on Google Cloud skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: cleaning data with Dataprep by Trifacta, running data pipelines in Dataflow, creating clusters and running Apache Spark jobs in Managed Service for Apache Spark, and calling ML APIs including the Cloud Natural Language API, Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API, and Video Intelligence API.

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Building a reliable platform for data analysis requires structured data modeling and clean, maintainable code. In this challenge, you’ll start with the building blocks of LookML, creating custom dimensions, measures, and derived tables to shape your data exactly how you need it. From there, you'll work on making your platform faster and easier to use by setting up caching, defining datagroups, and modularizing your code using extends. By following these development best practices, you'll walk away knowing how to build efficient, scalable data models that your team can easily rely on.

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A season to build, experiment, and grow—one skill at a time. You’ll start with the fundamentals of networking, creating the foundation that connects everything together. From there, you’ll step into automation and application development using Cloud Scheduler, App Engine, and machine learning APIs. By the end, you’ll have a more confident, hands-on understanding of how modern applications are built, connected, and run on the cloud.

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Securing applications and streamlining delivery go hand in hand in modern cloud environments. In this trail, you’ll work with tools like Cloud KMS, Identity-Aware Proxy, and service accounts to manage access and protect resources. You’ll also explore private Kubernetes clusters, artifact management, and build CI/CD pipelines with Cloud Build—bringing together the essentials of cloud security and DevOps in practice.

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Building and running applications on Google Cloud can take many forms—and this adventure brings them together. Get hands-on with App Engine, Cloud Run, Kubernetes Engine, and Compute Engine as you deploy applications, manage scaling, and explore modern architectures, including the shift from monolithic to microservices.

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Welcome to Base Camp, where you’ll develop key Google Cloud skills (available in Spanish and Portuguese too!) and earn an exclusive credential that will open doors to the cloud for you. No prior experience is required!

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Working with data and applications requires the right balance of governance and agility. In this voyage, you’ll use Dataplex to organize, secure, and assess data quality while exploring concepts like data mesh. Alongside, you’ll get hands-on with Firebase—building serverless apps, working with Firestore, and managing data in real time—bringing together modern data management and application development.

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As platforms grow, maintaining speed, reliability, and seamless user experiences becomes critical. Inspired by Bobble AI and its journey to support millions of real-time interactions, this challenge explores how cloud-native systems are designed for efficiency at scale. You’ll work with Docker and Kubernetes to run and orchestrate applications, while also using IAM, Cloud Storage, and Monitoring to manage access, data, and performance. The result: a clearer view of how the right mix of containers, automation, and observability keeps modern applications fast, resilient, and efficient.

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On Google Cloud, building an app usually means handling more than just the code. You’ll need to deploy it, connect services, and keep things running properly. In this voyage, you’ll host a web app, set up a deployment pipeline, and build a REST API with Cloud Run. You’ll also try out Flutter and set up a Python development environment. You’ll work with VPC networks, load balancing, and clean up unused resources along the way. It’s a practical set of tasks that reflects how apps are actually run on Google Cloud.

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This course introduces important topics of AI privacy and safety. It explores practical methods and tools to implement AI privacy and safety recommended practices through the use of Google Cloud products and open-source tools.

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This course introduces concepts of responsible AI and AI principles. It covers techniques to practically identify fairness and bias and mitigate bias in AI/ML practices. It explores practical methods and tools to implement Responsible AI best practices using Google Cloud products and open source tools.

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This course introduces concepts of AI interpretability and transparency. It discusses the importance of AI transparency for developers and engineers. It explores practical methods and tools to help achieve interpretability and transparency in both data and AI models.

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Explore AI-powered search technologies, tools, and applications in this course. Learn semantic search utilizing vector embeddings, hybrid search combining semantic and keyword approaches, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) minimizing AI hallucinations as a grounded AI agent. Gain practical experience with Vertex AI Vector Search to build your intelligent search engine. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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בקורס הזה נלמד על Generative AI Studio, מוצר ב-Vertex AI שעוזר ליצור אבות טיפוס למודלים של בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית, כדי להשתמש בהם ולהתאים אותם לפי הצרכים שלכם. באמצעות הדגמה של המוצר עצמו, נלמד מהו Generative AI Studio, מהם הפיצ'רים והאפשרויות שלו, ואיך להשתמש בו. בסוף הקורס יהיה שיעור Lab מעשי לתרגול של מה שנלמד, ובוחן לבדיקת הידע.

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This course is dedicated to equipping you with the knowledge and tools needed to uncover the unique challenges faced by MLOps teams when deploying and managing Generative AI models, and exploring how Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform empowers AI teams to streamline MLOps processes and achieve success in Generative AI projects.

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בקורס הזה תלמדו איך ליצור מודל הוספת כיתוב לתמונה באמצעות למידה עמוקה (Deep Learning). אתם תלמדו על הרכיבים השונים במודל הוספת כיתוב לתמונה, כמו המקודד והמפענח, ואיך לאמן את המודל ולהעריך את הביצועים שלו. בסוף הקורס תוכלו ליצור מודלים להוספת כיתוב לתמונה ולהשתמש בהם כדי ליצור כיתובים לתמונות

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בקורס הזה נציג את הארכיטקטורה של טרנספורמרים ואת המודל של ייצוגים דו-כיווניים של מקודד מטרנספורמרים (BERT). תלמדו על החלקים השונים בארכיטקטורת הטרנספורמר, כמו מנגנון תשומת הלב, ועל התפקיד שלו בבניית מודל BERT. תלמדו גם על המשימות השונות שאפשר להשתמש ב-BERT כדי לבצע אותן, כמו סיווג טקסטים, מענה על שאלות והֶקֵּשׁ משפה טבעית. נדרשות כ-45 דקות כדי להשלים את הקורס הזה.

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בקורס הזה לומדים בקצרה על ארכיטקטורת מקודד-מפענח, ארכיטקטורה עוצמתית ונפוצה ללמידת מכונה שמשתמשים בה במשימות של רצף לרצף, כמו תרגום אוטומטי, סיכום טקסט ומענה לשאלות. תלמדו על החלקים השונים בארכיטקטורת מקודד-מפענח, איך לאמן את המודלים האלה ואיך להשתמש בהם. בהדרכה המפורטת המשלימה בשיעור ה-Lab תקודדו ב-TensorFlow תרחיש שימוש פשוט בארכיטקטורת מקודד-מפענח: כתיבת שיר מאפס.

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בקורס נלמד על מנגנון תשומת הלב, שיטה טובה מאוד שמאפשרת לרשתות נוירונים להתמקד בחלקים ספציפיים ברצף הקלט. נלמד איך עובד העיקרון של תשומת הלב, ואיך אפשר להשתמש בו כדי לשפר את הביצועים במגוון משימות של למידת מכונה, כולל תרגום אוטומטי, סיכום טקסט ומענה לשאלות.

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בקורס נלמד על מודלים של דיפוזיה, משפחת מודלים של למידת מכונה שיצרו הרבה ציפיות לאחרונה בתחום של יצירת תמונות. מודלים של דיפוזיה שואבים השראה מפיזיקה, וספציפית מתרמודינמיקה. בשנים האחרונות, מודלים של דיפוזיה הפכו לפופולריים גם בתחום המחקר וגם בתעשייה. מודלים של דיפוזיה עומדים מאחורי הרבה מהכלים והמודלים החדשניים ליצירת תמונות ב-Google Cloud. בקורס הזה נלמד על התיאוריה שמאחורי מודלים של דיפוזיה, ואיך לאמן ולפרוס אותם ב-Vertex AI.

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Gen AI Agents: Transform Your Organization is the fifth and final course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course explores how organizations can use custom gen AI agents to help tackle specific business challenges. You gain hands-on practice building a basic gen AI agent, while exploring the components of these agents, such as models, reasoning loops, and tools. Explore other content in the Gemini Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Transform Your Work With Gen AI Apps is the fourth course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. This course introduces Google’s gen AI applications, such as Google Workspace with Gemini and Gemini Notebook. It guides you through concepts like grounding, retrieval augmented generation, constructing effective prompts and building automated workflows.

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Gen AI: Navigate the Landscape is the third course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. Gen AI is changing how we work and interact with the world around us. But as a leader, how can you harness its power to drive real business outcomes? In this course, you explore the different layers of building gen AI solutions, Google Cloud’s offerings, and the factors to consider when selecting a solution.

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Gen AI: Unlock Foundational Concepts is the second course of the Gen AI Leader learning path. In this course, you unlock the foundational concepts of generative AI by exploring the differences between AI, ML, and gen AI, and understanding how various data types enable generative AI to address business challenges. You also gain insights into Google Cloud strategies to address the limitations of foundation models and the key challenges for responsible and secure AI development and deployment.

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Gen AI: Beyond the Chatbot is the first course of the Gen AI Leader learning path and has no prerequisites. This course aims to move beyond the basic understanding of chatbots to explore the true potential of generative AI for your organization. You explore concepts like foundation models and prompt engineering, which are crucial for leveraging the power of gen AI. The course also guides you through important considerations you should make when developing a successful gen AI strategy for your organization.

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As the use of enterprise Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning continues to grow, so too does the importance of building it responsibly. A challenge for many is that talking about responsible AI can be easier than putting it into practice. If you’re interested in learning how to operationalize responsible AI in your organization, this course is for you. In this course, you will learn how Google Cloud does this today, together with best practices and lessons learned, to serve as a framework for you to build your own responsible AI approach.

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זהו קורס מבוא ממוקד שמטרתו להסביר מהי אתיקה של בינה מלאכותית, למה היא חשובה ואיך Google נוהגת לפי כללי האתיקה של הבינה המלאכותית במוצרים שלה. מוצגים בו גם 7 עקרונות ה-AI של Google.

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זהו קורס מבוא ממוקד שבוחן מהם מודלים גדולים של שפה (LLM), איך משתמשים בהם בתרחישים שונים לדוגמה ואיך אפשר לשפר את הביצועים שלהם באמצעות כוונון של הנחיות. הוא גם כולל הסבר על הכלים של Google שיעזרו לכם לפתח אפליקציות בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית משלכם.

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זהו קורס מבוא ממוקד שמטרתו להסביר מהי בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית, איך משתמשים בה ובמה היא שונה משיטות מסורתיות של למידת מכונה. הוא גם כולל הסבר על הכלים של Google שיעזרו לכם לפתח אפליקציות בינה מלאכותית גנרטיבית משלכם.

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Complete the intermediate Develop Gen AI Apps with Gemini and Streamlit skill badge course to demonstrate skills in text generation, applying function calls with the Python SDK and Gemini API, and deploying a Streamlit application with Cloud Run. In this course, you learn Gemini prompting, test Streamlit apps in Cloud Shell, and deploy them as Docker containers in Cloud Run. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Complete the intermediate Inspect Rich Documents with Gemini Multimodality and Multimodal RAG skill badge course to demonstrate skills in the following: using multimodal prompts to extract information from text and visual data, generating a video description, and retrieving extra information beyond the video using multimodality with Gemini; building metadata of documents containing text and images, getting all relevant text chunks, and printing citations by using Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Gemini. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Complete the intermediate Explore Generative AI in Agent Platform skill badge to demonstrate skills in text generation, image and video analysis for enhanced content creation, and applying function calling techniques within the Gemini API. Discover how to leverage sophisticated Gemini techniques, explore multimodal content generation, and expand the capabilities of your AI-powered projects. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Complete the introductory Prompt Design in Agent Platform skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: prompt engineering, image analysis, and multimodal generative techniques, within Agent Platform. Discover how to craft effective prompts, guide generative AI output, and apply Gemini models to real-world marketing scenarios. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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Complete the introductory Build Real World AI Applications with Gemini and Imagen skill badge to demonstrate skills in the following: image recognition, natural language processing, image generation using Google's powerful Gemini and Imagen models, deploying applications on the Google Cloud Agent Platform. Explore other content in the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

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